Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 4:43 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On 06/29/2018 02:30 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
>
> > When we wired up two different locations for terminals at Software
> > Results Corp in the 80s, the furthest runs were 250' or so.  9600
> > baud, from VT100s back to Emulex and DEC serial muxes.  The long runs
> > were 25-pair telephone cable (CAT3) and  Nevada Western modular wiring
> > products at the user and and in the middle (silver satin patch cords
> > and 6p6c jacks and receptacles).   Total port count was over 50 to 4-5
> > machines and to 20+ offices.
>
> That was a very common setup in the 80s.   25 or 50 pair phone cable
> running through the usual wiring closets and punch-down blocks.  Simple,
> and something that installers could understand.
>

When I ran my mini ISP with 7 dialing lines, I used a punchdown block since
it was easier to bring 4 lines at a time from the network box to my
basement before fanning them out to the modems...

Still use punchdown for ethernet...

Warner

Warner

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